Right-leaning sites are far more likely to attack fact-checkers than liberal ones

This report found that, during the 2016 presidential election, popular conservative websites were far more likely to criticize fact-checking organizations than their liberal counterparts. Based on an analysis of 10 U.S. partisan publications, the Duke Reporters' Lab logged 792 statements mentioning fact-checkers and categorized them as positive, negative or neutral. While a majority of citations (68 percent) were neutral, there was a dramatic divide in the source of negative comments. All told, critics lobbed 71 accusations of bias against fact-checkers — conservative websites were responsible for 97 percent of them.